Everyone says CRST is bad?

The negative only lies with crst

 

FYI - CRST has upped their payscale. They no longer pay the .22cpm for trainees. Trainees start out at .25 cpm then by month 6 you are making .31 cpm which is pretty competitive

 

Not really, when most places start at .31

 

I have recently done a carrier comparison and no trucking company that hires rookies starts at .31 - you are sorely confused

 

Some company's that start you out from there school solo do start you out at .31

 

6cpm increase in 6 months is pretty decent jump but its probably the only way that lousy company can keep the few drivers that dont leave before then....

 

The pay for CRST after 6 months is .32/mile. I currently work for them. I am in my 9th month. I trained with them. I personally have had a good experience with them. I have a great dispatcher and my co-driver and I run as many miles as we can. We average about 6000 per week. I don't doubt that there are some bad experiences with CRST, but one thing I have learned is that most of the complainers and whiners who bash the company had some fault of their own. My motto is that "people need to take personal responsibility for their own success". It has served me well in my life and at CRST. I am organized and I run hard. CRST has always paid me on time every time. I have had very few issues so far after 9 months. It is a starter company and you deal with certain crap with starter companies, but in my experience with CRST I think that people give them an unfair amount of crap. Just my 2 cents.

 

That is actually not that impressive. When I worked their, I was making .22cpm and with per diem I was making .20cpm, split in half, .10cpm. So, .25cpm would be .23cpm, split in half would be .11.5cpm. Most companies start at around .28cpm I believe. There are far better options out there than CRST.

 

LuckyTrucker - you are incorrect. The MILES are split, NOT THE PAY. If you were making .22/mile then you were making .22/mile. NOT .10/mile. If you got 6000 miles in a week, then you were paid 3000 miles x .22/mile. Now you could take 6000 miles and multiply it by the .12/mile and it comes out to the same.

I can't believe how many people think they are only getting .12/mile. Doesn't anybody read their pay statements?

 

On my pay stubs, it showed .10cpm.. so, think of it this way, buddy. .22cpm with per diem is .20cpm.
.20cpm x 2300miles = $460 divided by 2 = $230. .10cpm x 2300miles = $230. Either way you look at it, you are splitting those miles.

I don't know about you, but I never saw 6000 miles a week once I left my trainer. On top of that, school deductions took out a bit. The truck we had was a POS and constantly broke down. BTW it was a 2014 Freightshaker that had already been crashed. We got about 2300-2600 miles a load I will admit. So I made about $260 on that trip. After school deductions, scales, tolls and food, I had nothing barely anything to get me by until my next 2300-2600 mile load..

Good for you if you get a consistent 6000 miles a week. I got that twice with my trainer and still after a 6000 mile run delivered on time, they would have us sit for 2 or 3 days because there were "no loads".

You can make pretty much the same checks solo at another company and not have to put up with a random co-driver and sleeping in a moving truck, trusting your life to them, go for it. If I could do it over, I would have went solo at .28cpm. Also, some of those solo companies don't make you pay out of pocket for tolls.